| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1144 | Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial LinksV. Jacobson | Proposed Standard | February 1990 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceV. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 7323 | Proposed Standard | May 1992 |
| 1435 | IESG Advice from Experience with Path MTU DiscoveryS. Knowles | Informational | March 1993 |
| 1644 | T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional SpecificationR. Braden · obsoleted by RFC 6247 | Historic | July 1994 |
| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2246 | The TLS Protocol Version 1.0T. Dierks, C. Allen · obsoleted by RFC 4346 | Historic | January 1999 |
| 2309 | Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the InternetB. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang · obsoleted by RFC 7567 | Informational | April 1998 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2488 | Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard MechanismsM. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez | Best Current Practice | January 1999 |
| 2507 | IP Header CompressionM. Degermark, B. Nordgren, S. Pink | Proposed Standard | February 1999 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2582 | The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery AlgorithmS. Floyd, T. Henderson · obsoleted by RFC 3782 | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2757 | Long Thin NetworksG. Montenegro, S. Dawkins, M. Kojo, V. Magret, N. Vaidya | Informational | January 2000 |
| 2760 | Ongoing TCP Research Related to SatellitesM. Allman, Ed., S. Dawkins, D. Glover, J. Griner, D. Tran, T. Henderson, J. Heidemann, J. Touch, H. Kruse, S. Ostermann, K. Scott, J. Semke | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2883 | An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCPS. Floyd, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis, M. Podolsky | Proposed Standard | July 2000 |
| 2884 | Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP NetworksJ. Hadi Salim, U. Ahmed | Informational | July 2000 |
| 2988 | Computing TCP's Retransmission TimerV. Paxson, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 6298 | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3042 | Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited TransmitM. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3095 | RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP, ESP, and uncompressedC. Bormann, C. Burmeister, M. Degermark, H. Fukushima, H. Hannu, L-E. Jonsson, R. Hakenberg, T. Koren, K. Le, Z. Liu, A. Martensson, A. Miyazaki, K. Svanbro, T. Wiebke, T. Yoshimura, H. Zheng | Proposed Standard | July 2001 |
| 3135 | Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related DegradationsJ. Border, M. Kojo, J. Griner, G. Montenegro, Z. Shelby | Informational | June 2001 |
| 3150 | End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow LinksS. Dawkins, G. Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret | Best Current Practice | July 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3366 | Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)G. Fairhurst, L. Wood | Best Current Practice | September 2002 |
| 3374 | Problem Description: Reasons For Performing Context Transfers Between Nodes in an IP Access NetworkJ. Kempf, Ed. | Informational | September 2002 |
| 3390 | Increasing TCP's Initial WindowM. Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge | Proposed Standard | November 2002 |
| 3449 | TCP Performance Implications of Network Path AsymmetryH. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, G. Fairhurst, M. Sooriyabandara | Best Current Practice | December 2002 |